I should not be allowed near bookstores. I recently bought a nook color just because I had run out of places on my shelves and in my house to put more books, and I am still finding myself buying more every time I enter the store. As such, I cannot tell if it was an incredibly good or bad idea to go to the local bookfair, where the public library was selling off some of its stuff. On the one hand they were cheap, on the other hand they almost broke my arms trying to get them to the car.
So far I ended up with:
The Magicians (Lev Grossman)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists
Sing the Four Quarters (Tanya Huff)
Blood Lines (Tanya Huff )
Blood Dept (Tanya Huff - can you tell I like her?)
Necroscope (Brian Lumley)
Vamphyri! (Brian Lumley)
Harvard Classics: The First Part of [....] Don Quixote of the Mancha
and the Brittanica Great Books
(8) Aristotle I
(9) Aristotle II
(17) Plotinus
(31) Descartes / Spinoza
(33) Pascal
(46) Hegel
The two girlies I was with were taking bets on how many I would get, with one saying 20 and one 30, so I am rather proud to have gotten under both estimates! (Not counting the four books I got for my gf, including 'Mistress of Spices', a book on Belly Dancing, a self-help inspirational book, and a Deepak Chopra book)
They are all currently balancing precariously against a desk lamp which, I distinctly hope, will be balanced by the wall when it eventually is pushed down. Fortunately it is a tall lamp so the books have not reached the top of it yet. Now what I need is either a few months off to read all of them, or to develop a new device that will read them straight into my brain while I do other stuff... Scratch that last bit, the whole fun of a book is the reading, connecting with the author, feeling the story develop, the great visuals you have... Mmmm.. I won't say its better than sex.. it depends way too much on good the actual book is, and how good the actual sex is. But they are at times in competition with one another.
So far I ended up with:
The Magicians (Lev Grossman)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists
Sing the Four Quarters (Tanya Huff)
Blood Lines (Tanya Huff )
Blood Dept (Tanya Huff - can you tell I like her?)
Necroscope (Brian Lumley)
Vamphyri! (Brian Lumley)
Harvard Classics: The First Part of [....] Don Quixote of the Mancha
and the Brittanica Great Books
(8) Aristotle I
(9) Aristotle II
(17) Plotinus
(31) Descartes / Spinoza
(33) Pascal
(46) Hegel
The two girlies I was with were taking bets on how many I would get, with one saying 20 and one 30, so I am rather proud to have gotten under both estimates! (Not counting the four books I got for my gf, including 'Mistress of Spices', a book on Belly Dancing, a self-help inspirational book, and a Deepak Chopra book)
They are all currently balancing precariously against a desk lamp which, I distinctly hope, will be balanced by the wall when it eventually is pushed down. Fortunately it is a tall lamp so the books have not reached the top of it yet. Now what I need is either a few months off to read all of them, or to develop a new device that will read them straight into my brain while I do other stuff... Scratch that last bit, the whole fun of a book is the reading, connecting with the author, feeling the story develop, the great visuals you have... Mmmm.. I won't say its better than sex.. it depends way too much on good the actual book is, and how good the actual sex is. But they are at times in competition with one another.